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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
According to Suella Braverman not one of these ENGLAND players are English. FUCK HER 🖕🖕🏾🖕🏿🖕🏽🖕🏼
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 29/09/2026
📢 The PM'S promise to end the triple lock next parliament is good news for the public finances, and for the vulnerable pensioners who lose far more from a broken care system than they gain from a random ratchet on their pension ⤵️
Ruth Curtice, Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation, said: 
“The triple lock is a terribly designed policy that has cost far more than originally anticipated and yet failed to reduce pensioner poverty.  The Prime Minister has been under pressure to show that he can take tough decisions on public spending – and scrapping the triple lock is a good way to demonstrate that.
“Recycling the savings from scrapping the triple lock into social care will especially help vulnerable pensioners who stand to lose far from a broken care system than they gain from a random ratchet on how the State Pension is increased.”
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Interest on Reserves: The £100bn UK Bank Subsidy You Fund. Banks making £50bn profits a year receive subsidies, long ended by the EU. UK Treasury will payout over £150bn over a five-year period from 2023 to 2028. No justification for handling billions to banks. End bank subsidies, help people.
babelfish.news
Interest on Reserves: The £100bn UK Bank Subsidy You Fund
The Bank of England has paid commercial banks £100bn in interest on reserves in three years. The EU stopped doing it in 2023 – Dale Vince says Britain must too.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33
Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A contractor was at my house a few days ago. The last time he was there - about two years ago - he told me that he'd been having some brain fog after Covid. This time, he told me, completely nonchalantly, that he, 'can't remember anything now'. He's ten years younger than me.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.
Reform UK
Follow
@reformparty_uk
Charities' actions in aiding and abetting the invasion of our country will be illegal under
Reform UK.

Photo of Farage on Gb news
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BuDS Disability Service @buds-disability.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Covid wave is starting in England. The data is now unmistakable: as of 13 September, 1 in every 378 people were infected, up 78% on the previous week. The BuDS overall Covid risk level has been raised to Moderately High. A thread 🧵
Covid wave beginning in England.
Risk level rises to Moderately High at 1 in 378.
Influenza (flu) also on the rise.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Politicians on the centre-left and centre-right simply don't seem to understand they are in an existential battle for the future of British democracy.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's Clacton by-election day. Or, if you prefer, Farage-Commons-standards-inquiry-reopening-eve.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Really? Is that it? If this is all that’s come from COBR, it’s pitifully inadequate. As crisis deepens, it beggars belief that there aren’t eg plans to increase resources for the fire service, support for farmers, max workplace temperature, funded community cool spaces & obvs ban on new fossil fuels
independent.co.uk
Andy Burnham warns of summer ban on disposable barbecues
Andy Burnham said he would consider if a restriction on purchasing the products during the summer months could be justified
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Waterloo scientists Dr. Brian Ingalls, Dr. Sara Sadr, and Dr. Marc Aucoin have engineered “tumor-eating” bacteria that can invade and destroy cancer from within. A potential breakthrough in cancer treatment research.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Please read..... #BookSky
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
You wouldn't know from these Tweets by a BBC reporter that small boat crossings are down by almost a half compared to the same period last year
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kazza66.bsky.social @kazza66.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
People warned that SARS-COV2 seemed to cause an increase in diabetes (plus other issues)….so today’s news that diabetes has increased in women in UK in their 20’s ‘since Covid’ is hardly surprising. Nor is the conclusion that it must be due to their obesity (which it may be in some) but seriously?
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kazza66.bsky.social @kazza66.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social good topic on Friday re PANS/Pandas. I am sure your wife is aware, but there are various studies linking covid infection to onset/exacerbation of this. Allowing the virus free rein the last five years (thankfully no new variant in recent months) means likely more incidence?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Nigel Farage. A proper football fan who hasn't moved an inch in almost two years.
Farage with a pint in a football shirtSame picture
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Tomorrow’s Independent front page:
The
INDEPENDENT
urop
The Way Bac
Their promises of more jobs, more trade, more power for Britain have proved a con, Michael Heseltine writes as the Brexit vote 10th anniversary approaches. Never have so few done so much damage to so many with so little ability to execute what they lied about. Their scandalously false prospectus has turned to dust and ashes. Naturally, they blame everyone but themselves.
They are the guilty men and should...
...hang their heads in shame
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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Researchers Find Long Covid More Common Than Willingness To Say Long Covid
Some people talking about not long covid

Headline:
Researchers Find Long Covid More Common Than Willingness To Say Long Covid
Story by Yolanda Graphene and Woody Lumberbranch

photo from Unsplash
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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Most People Do Not Have Long Covid, Just A Mysterious Illness Since Covid, Says Study
Someone taking a rest for a minute, if that's ok.
Headline:
Most People Do Not Have Long Covid, Just A Mysterious Illness Since Covid, Says Study
Story by Paolo Muchacho and Kylie Kipperton

Photo from UNsplash
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/06/2026
Emergency hospital admissions fell after introduction of London’s T-charge and Ulez, study suggests
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Emergency hospital admissions fell after introduction of London’s T-charge and Ulez, study suggests
Imperial College scientists analysed health records before and after introduction of air pollution reduction zones Low emission and clean air zones attract controversy whenever they are proposed, but there is growing evidence that they work in improving air quality. The Bradford zone was followed by a reduction of about 25% in GP visits for heart and breathing problems and survey data shows that the central London zone was followed by a reduction in the likelihood of a person taking sick leave. Now analysis of health records has found emergency admissions to hospital reduced after the introduction of the T-charge and ultra-low emissions zone (Ulez) in central London. Continue reading...
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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
BREAKING: Indigenous white people commit riot and arson. Incompetent indigenous white police fire water cannon. Indigenous white politicians who fucked up our economy discuss "legitimate concerns" in lying newspapers owned by indigenous white tax evaders. Immigrants somehow remain the problem.
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Nigel Farage is a demagogue who has little regard for facts or the truth. Journalists covering him have no such excuse app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73749/...
app.prospectmagazine.co.uk
Nigel Farage is a dangerous demagogue—here’s how to stop him
The Reform leader and his media cheerleaders have cynically exploited the murder of Henry Nowak.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
From now on, any interview with him that doesn’t end like this should shame the interviewer for ever. And yet because he & his backers have corrupted so much of the media, it takes proper courage to do it.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
It's not unlike watching current coverage of net zero or the EU prior to 2016 or Boris Johnson's ascent to power or Liz Truss taking control of the Treasury or Donald Trump etc etc. The BBC should be a bulwark against obvious propaganda & demonstrable lies, not an 'impartial' chronicler of it...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news.
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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
'...many patients with long COVID are already receiving care but are not being recognized as having the condition'. Exactly. I know so many people with Long Covid who don't know they have LC but they do know they developed a new condition after acute Covid-19. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
cidrap.umn.edu
Long COVID may affect 1 in 6 infected patients
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
britain needs less "islands of strangers" speeches and more jonathan millers.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I am once again wondering whether "no, the legitimate concerns racists don't have a point, fuck off, they're racist" might have been a better way of combating the far right.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The incidence and prevalence of #LongCovid worse than anticipated in the US, with 1 of 6 persons affected, and of these 89% had at least 1 chronic condition requiring management. From 58 hospitals, 4 regions, 457,950 patients. Prevalence increased thru mid 2024. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com
Long COVID Persistence and Surveillance Gaps Across 58 US Hospitals
This cohort study quantifies the gap between true postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 burden and diagnostic code–based estimates, determines the proportion representing chronic disease, and characterizes...
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Deeply pathetic that BBC is reporting this as a Reform power struggle rather than explaining that Reform's policies would require deporting people -including pensioners - who have lived and worked here legally for decades. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Yusuf in clash with Jenrick over Reform's deportation policy
Reform's home affairs chief has publicly disagreed with its Treasury spokesman over what party policy is.
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Vicki the cats' mother @catsmother.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Danny Kruger has made his views clear about the rights of women. The media is normal-washing him by name-checking his mum who was a judge on Great British Bake Off. Kruger is another monster who is being given the oxygen of publicity and is thriving on it. This is not and never should be normal.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Just in case you’re feeling even vaguely optimistic about anything right now, please note that two UK political parties populated & led by profoundly racist people are currently being described as merely ‘right-wing’ in pretty much every corner of the UK media. This is how the worst stuff happens…
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kazza66.bsky.social @kazza66.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
@elhopkins.bsky.social hi Esther, just listened to a great podcast Ready To Talk hosted by Emma Barnett, with Oonagh Cousins the GB rower who has Long Covid. Very supportive of the struggles faced by many, and may help to enlighten those who listen, although still spoken as though risks in the past
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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Powerful words from Juan Manuel Santos on why we must protect international law. To ignore it would be "a dangerous race to the bottom – toward a world in which nobody is protected, where there are no rules and no order.” A timely reminder: theelders.org/news/we-are-...
theelders.org
We are only protected by law if we abide by it
Juan Manuel Santos delivered a video address at the UN Association’s event marking the 80th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The best thing about my Russian hack story is that how the Guardian found out about the £5 million is completely irrelevant. But now people are talking about that instead of why I was given it, why I tried to hide it and whether I bought houses with it. 😉
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 22/05/2026
"That's what happens when you elect Nigel Farage fans..." @mrjamesob.bsky.social reacts to two new Reform councillors admitting they don't know what they're doing.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Politicians endlessly blame immigration for their own failures. So, when immigration is reduced, their ‘success’ isn’t recognised. No one’s life has particularly improved. Because no one’s life was ever going to improve by reducing immigration. Because our problems were never caused by immigration.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Sobering stuff from David Blunkett in the @financialtimes.com
Fragmentation divides rather than unites; grievance politics emphasises our differences, exaggerates what separates us rather than what we hold in common and leads to a brutal environment. If you don’t believe me then read the words emailed to me by a South Yorkshire Labour councillor, who just lost their seat.

“It was beyond difficult on the doorstep during the past four months. I have never had so much hate thrown at me. Not anger, pure hate and vitriol . . . The flags were weaponised, neighbour feared neighbour . . . I was screamed at, sworn at, accused of supporting paedophiles, circled by off-road bikers, threats of urination when I leafleted. It was like this on a daily basis.”

If you’re not shocked, you should be. This is the reality of politics in 2026.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government elected on a minority of the vote
theguardian.com
Greens suggest they will properly contest byelection in blow to Burnham
Statement follows speculation party would not field candidate in Makerfield or barely fight seat
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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Hantavirus Won’t Be Able To Spread In Schools, Says TV Doctor, Because Transmission Requires Prolonged Exposure In Enclosed Spaces
A tv doctor
Headline:
Hantavirus Won’t Be Able To Spread In Schools, Says TV Doctor, Because Transmission Requires Prolonged Exposure In Enclosed Spaces
story Lulu Duhatchet and Gark Henderson

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Calm-mongers: "There is no asymptomatic transmission of hantavirus." Precaution-pushers: "How do you know that?" CM: "We've never seen it." PP: "Do you test asymptomatic people who have been exposed?" CM: "No." PP: "Why not?" CM: "Because there is no asymptomatic transmission of hantavirus."
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Nicked it off someone on here - although I added an extra vowel…
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